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RE: Weird things in this cardboard box

To: "'Don Marshall'" <marshall@nefcom.net>, Chip19474@aol.com, SJagGo@aol.com, amace@unix2.nysed.gov
Subject: RE: Weird things in this cardboard box
From: Dennis Lambert <DLambert@anaheim.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 16:06:34 -0800charset="iso-8859-1"
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
Chip,
I drove a Hillman Minx (I think it was a Minx) for a while in late 1969.  It
did indeed have a "4 on the tree".  The shift pattern was backwards from
most column shifters, though - first and second gears of the "H" pattern
were toward the dash, third and fourth were toward the driver.  I don't
remember where to heck reverse was!

Dennis 

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Marshall [mailto:marshall@nefcom.net]
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 3:56 PM
To: Chip19474@aol.com; SJagGo@aol.com; amace@unix2.nysed.gov
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Weird things in this cardboard box



At 06:25 PM 1/14/00 EST, Chip19474@aol.com wrote:
>
>In a message dated 00-01-14 12:58:11 EST, SJagGo@aol.com writes:
>
><< in my 53 Chevy with 3 on the tree >>
>
>Now there's an expression (3 on the tree) that many of our younger members 
>won't quickly recognize...and one not often used around LBCs unless your
LBC 
>happens to be perhaps a Hillman Husky....I think that's what a friend and I

>bought from a junkyard for $75 back in the 60's.  I know it was a Hillman -

>not sure about the Husky part....we fixed it up for parking lot 
>gymkanas....had "4 on the tree" if I recall correctly...anyone 
>remember....OK, rambling switch is off.

Mom's '58 Hillman Minx convertible definitely had "4 on the tree".  Lots of
fun for a high school boy in the early 60s at Clover Park High...  

Don Marshall
Class of '64


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